Word: subjectively
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...times. He began appearing, scarcely disguised, as a character in novels before he had written anything substantial himself, and the passions aroused by his dizzying ascent and precipitous collapse have stirred memoirists and biographers ever since. Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde will not be the last word on this subject, but it is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account. Ellmann, who died seven months ago of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), was the author of the landmark literary biography James Joyce (1959). In his numerous books and essays he displayed an acute, doctrine-free...
...reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered subject who parried their questions adroitly. His response that he had found the ocean voyage uninteresting eventually made its way into a headline: MR. WILDE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE ATLANTIC. And so it went across America for nearly ten months: Wilde preaching art-for-art's-sake to people who had come...
Adrian Cronauer is a military misfit. As protagonist of the first major service comedy about Viet Nam -- and what sometimes seems to be the last, dead-on surreal word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
Winter deals fictionally with the rise and fall, and then the rise and fall again, of Germany during the first 45 years of the 20th century. This vast subject is interesting in a number of ways, although a sense of surprise is not one of them; nearly everyone knows how World Wars I and II turned out. Deighton's purpose is not to astound but to explain. He meticulously traces the lives of two brothers, the sons of a wealthy Berlin financier and his beautiful American wife. Peter Winter is the elder by three years; Paul, born...
That free enterprise can be free of all restraint is only one of the facts of life thrown out for consideration in The Drowned and the Saved. Levi's last writings about the unspeakable quietly fill in the blanks of a subject that is in danger of becoming an abstraction. "For the young people of the 1950s and 1960s," he observes, "these were events connected with their fathers: they were spoken about in the family; memories of them still preserved the freshness of things seen. For the young people of the 1980s, they are matters associated with their grandfathers: distant...